Intravenous lipid emulsion for levobupivacaine intoxication in acidotic and hypoxaemic pigs.

abstract：:Thyroid storm is a rare but life-threatening condition manifesting with several clinical presentations. Atypical thyroid storm should be part of the differential diagnosis in patients with multiple organ dysfunction of unknown aetiology. In this case report, delayed recognition of thyroid storm in a young female who p...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Karanikolas M,Velissaris D,Karamouzos V,Filos KS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma catecholamine concentrations in blood obtained simultaneously from the pulmonary and radial arteries of ten critically ill patients have been measured. The mean mixed venous concentrations of noradrenaline, adrenaline and dopamine were extremely high, noradrenaline 11.3 pmol/ml (SD 11.6), adrenaline 2.7 pmol/ml...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Russell WJ,Frewin DB,Jonsson JR

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective, randomized, double-blind study was designed to compare the recovery characteristics of remifentanil and fentanyl in combination with propofol for direct current cardioversion. Patients undergoing elective cardioversion received either intravenous fentanyl 1 microg/kg (n=33) or remifentanil 0.25 micro...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Maltepe F,Kocaayan E,Ugurlu BS,Akdeniz B,Guneri S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has been shown to improve quality of life and survival rates in patients suffering from pseudomyxoma peritonei. The procedure is long and associated with significant intraoperative blood loss. As such, the anaesthetic management of pati...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Shiralkar SP,Kerr P,Scott J,Sivalingam P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently a shortage of organ donors to meet the demands of transplantation waiting lists. In recent years there has been renewed interest in donation after cardiac death in order to increase the pool of potential donors. The Organ and Tissue Authority has recently developed a national policy for donation aft...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Sidiropoulos S,McEvoy L,Steel S,Silvester W,Warrillow S,Bolch S,Jones D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous peripheral nerve blockade is a common technique in the analgesic management for many procedures. Leakage of local anaesthetic from around the nerve catheter insertion site can increase the chance of catheter dislodgement, risks infective complications, and could divert anaesthetic away from the nerve causin...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Edwards RM,Currigan DA,Bradbeer S,Mitchell C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unplanned intensive care unit admission within 24 hours of a procedure with an anaesthetist in attendance (UIA) is a recommended clinical indicator It is designed to identify preventable iatrogenic complications. Often understood as a specific anaesthetic outcome, its value has been repeatedly questioned. Iatrogeni...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Haller G,Myles PS,Langley M,Stoelwinder J,McNeil J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia on intraocular pressure in physically fit, ASA class I or II patients using combinations of sufentanil (1 microgram/kg), or fentanyl (5 micrograms/kg) and vecuronium (0.2 mg/kg) or atracurium (1.0 mg/kg). All patients received thiopentone (5 mg/kg), foll...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Stirt JA,Chiu GJ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first 2000 incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring study (AIMS) were examined to identify those incidents which occurred preoperatively (defined as occurring prior to the commencement of general or regional anaesthesia). The 35 incidents, representing 1.7% of the total, which occurred in this time...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ludbrook GL,Webb RK,Fox MA,Singleton RJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral or bilateral raised hemidiaphragms were observed on chest X-ray in three patients with severe tetanus. Diaphragmatic movement was absent on ultrasonography and fluoroscopy. Nerve conduction study confirmed phrenic nerve palsy. Bilateral involvement caused delayed weaning from the ventilator, whereas unilate...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Panda NB,Yaddanapudi S,Bharadwaj N,Das C,Chari P

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous, and to a significantly lesser extent, autologous blood transfusion is associated with definable and potentially serious risk. The increasing professional and public awareness has led to a critical evaluation of transfusion practices and a change in transfusion philosophy towards optimising transfusion ther...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Nicholls MD

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conscious subjects breathing spontaneously the performance of the Lack semi-closed system resembled the Magill attachment in that rebreathing was only detected at fresh gas flows of less than resting minute volume. With the Bain semi-closed system rebreathing was detectable at fresh gas flows of the order of 2.5 ti...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Nott MR,Walters FJ,Norman J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elevated serum lactate level is associated with morbidity and mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. In patients with hepatic dysfunction, however an elevated serum lactate level may be due to either impaired lactate clearance or excessive production. Thus, we evaluated whether the initial serum...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kang YR,Um SW,Koh WJ,Suh GY,Chung MP,Kim H,Kwon OJ,Jeon K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to achieve the maximum therapeutic benefit in the treatment of malignancies, doses of chemotherapeutic agents are pushed to the point of severe marrow toxicity. This aggressive therapy can lead to iatrogenic complications including haemorrhage and sepsis due to the depletion of platelets and granulocytes. Pri...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Tobias JD,Schleien C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of halothane (0.5-2%) and enflurane (1-4%) on two Transoxode transcutaneous oxygen (TcPO2) electrodes (Hellige Servomed Oxymonitor SM.361 system) were serially tested in atmospheres of nitrogen, air and 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen. Both TcPO2 electrodes reduced and "read" halothane but no enflurane. Calibr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Downing JW,Mankowitz M,Brock-Utne JG,Holloway AM

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) can reduce pulmonary arterial hypertension and improve oxygenation in some patients with severe respiratory or heart failure. Despite this, iNO has not been found to improve survival. This study aimed to perform a local practice audit to assess the mortality predictors of critically ill pati...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rolley L,Bandeshe H,Boots RJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute massive pulmonary embolism carries a high mortality with the majority of deaths occurring during the early phase. We describe a case of massive pulmonary embolism resulting in severe cardiovascular collapse and cardiac arrest which was treated successfully with inhaled nitric oxide. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Crerar-Gilbert A,Boots R

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 1863 the British surgeon, Henry Thompson, departed for Belgium to attend Leopold, King of the Belgians. The King was in agony: he had suffered with bladder stones for months and multiple procedures, without anaesthesia, had failed to relieve his symptoms. Henry Thompson was therefore consulted about the possibi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ball C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frailty assessment in patients admitted to intensive care is often limited using traditional clinical frailty assessment tools. Opportunistic use of contemporary computed tomography (CT) can provide an objective estimate of low skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) as a proxy for frailty. The aim of this study was to esta...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Joyce PR,O'Dempsey R,Kirby G,Anstey C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first reported case involving the peripartum anaesthetic management of dopamine beta-hydroxylase deficiency in a 22-year-old primigravida with high-grade placenta praevia. Elective caesarean section was performed at 36 weeks gestation with a combined spinal-epidural regional anaesthetic technique. Exten...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Scurrah NJ,Ross AW,Solly M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of critically ill patients who received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) using different forms of circuitry and for different indications are presented. Both patients had life-threatening infections with septic shock and were not able to be supported by conventional means. The first patient had sta...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： MacLaren G,Pellegrino V,Butt W,Preovolos A,Salamonsen R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an audit of needle cricothyroidotomy and transtracheal ventilation used during anaesthesia for elective endolaryngeal surgery. The data on 90 consecutive procedures was collected over two years. Patients were anaesthetized using a total intravenous technique. An intravenous cannula or Tuohy needle was p...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Russell WC,Maguire AM,Jones GW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant hyperthermia was an unknown condition in 1960 although there had always been occasional patients who died mysteriously under anaesthesia. The nature of the disease became apparent when a young Melbourne man presented that year with a compound fracture and a family history of deaths under anaesthesia. He surv...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ball C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been several reports of propofol becoming extrinsically contaminated with bacteria. These reports have usually related to infusions or delays in administration after the ampoule has been opened. This observational study was performed to examine bacterial contamination of propofol during usual practice in th...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Soong WA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study in coronary artery bypass graft patients was undertaken to assess the effect of gentamicin and a bypass prime with a high calcium on the incidence of renal failure. Patients who received both Haemaccel (polygeline, Hoechst Marion Roussel) (calcium concentration 6.25 mmol/l) in the bypass prime an...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Schneider M,Valentine S,Clarke GM,Newman MA,Peacock J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assessment and audit in anaesthesia require a systematic approach to postoperative data collection. The increasing prevalence of mobile internet technology offers a new data collection method for anaesthetists. In this paper, a system for mobile internet data collection is described and the preliminary experience...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Belavy D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Industrial Revolution saw the creation of many new jobs, but probably none more curious than that of zookeeper. The London Zoological Gardens, established for members in 1828, was opened to the general public in 1847. In 1852 the "Head Keeper in the Serpent Room", Edward Horatio Girling, spent a night farewelling ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ball C

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a survey of Australian specialist anaesthetists about their practice of sedation for elective and emergency gastroscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), and colonoscopy. A 24-item survey was emailed to 1,000 anaesthetists in August 2015. Responses were received from 409 anaesthetist...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Leslie K,Allen ML,Hessian E,Lee AY

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes four neonates having abdominal procedures with intraoperative and early postoperative analgesia provided by a transversus abdominis plane regional block. Analgesia for neonatal upper and mid-abdominal surgery usually involves regional anaesthesia and/or systemic opioid. All these analgesia techniq...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fredrickson MJ,Seal P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypotension associated with the rapid infusion of human serum albumin products was first recognised in Australasia in the early 1970s. An association with the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor class of drugs (ACE-I) followed, leading to a proposed mechanism involving bradykinin generation through pre-kallikrein ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Howard G,Downward G,Bowie D

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00